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HAMLET (Almereyda) |
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Dir. Michael Almereyda. USA 1999. 106 mins. An audacious adaptation set in the high-tech world of the Denmark Corporation in New York in 2000. The language works surprisingly well and Ethan Hawke is a decent Hamlet and there are some fine touches of humour throughout. | |
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HAMLET (Olivier) |
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| The Laurence Olivier version is still the best known. | |||
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HAMLET (Nicol Williamson) |
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| Made in 1969 also with Marianne Faithfull. | |||
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HAMLET (Zefferelli) |
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| Mel Gibson and Glenn Close in this 1990 version. | |||
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HAMLET(BBC) |
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| This BBC TV version at 3 hours 20 minutes is the most complete. With Derek Jacobi, Claire Bloom, Eric Porter and Lalla Ward. | |||
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HAMMETT |
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| A Wim Wenders private eye thriller. | |||
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THE ACCUSED |
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| When an idle and penniless socialite visits a wealthy couple living in harmony, he triggers a series of events which drastically disrupt all their lives. Best British film of 1988. James Wilby. | |||
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HANNAH AND HER SISTERS |
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| Woody Allen film humorously touching upon life, death, lust, love, adultery, childbirth, family relations etc, etc. | |||
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HANCOCK: |
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| THE BLOOD DONOR, THE
MISSING PAGE, TWELVE ANGRY MEN. 3 classic shows from Tony Hancock's historic BBC TV series. | |||
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HANCOCK: |
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| THE LIFT, THE LADIES MAN,
LORD BYRON LIVED HERE. More episodes from the BBC TV series. | |||
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A HARD DAY'S NIGHT |
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| The Beatles. A time-tripping voyage back to those days of the happy innocence of Beetlemania. | |||
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HARD TIMES |
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| A double cassette version of Dickens' story. A Granada TV production with an impressive line-up of actors and actresses. | |||
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HEAT and DUST |
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| India, today and a generation ago, as two young women become fascinated for a continent where the lust for power, violence and passion overshadow the facade of British respectability. Julie Christie. | |||
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HEATWAVE |
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| Australian film about an unscrupulous property developer who wants to build an amazing development and rides roughshod over residents. | |||
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HEAVEN's GATE |
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| The film that ruined United Artists. A masterpiece to some and a disaster according to others. Basically about the battle between cattlemen and sheep farmers. Dir. Michael Cimino. Kris Kristofferson. | |||
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HELL IN THE PACIFIC |
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| Starting off as enemies, US pilot and Japanese pilot, stranded on an island, find they need each other to survive. | |||
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HENRY IV PART ONE |
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| The BBC TV version with Jon Finch, Anthony Quayle and David Gwillim. 149 minutes. Dir. David Giles. | |||
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HENRY IV PART TWO |
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| The BBC TV version with the same cast as Part one. 152 minutes. | |||
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HENRY V. BBC TV |
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| David Gwillim,Alec McCowen and Josceline Boisseau. | |||
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HENRY V. (Olivier) |
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| The classic version with the famous charge to the music of Walton, reminiscent of Eisenstein in Alexander Nevsky. | |||
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HENRY V. (Branagh) |
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| The most recent film version with Paul Scofield, Derek Jacobi, Ian Holm and Kenneth Branagh. Also Judi Dench and Emma Thompson. | |||
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HENRY VII and his SIX WIVES |
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| An abridged version of the six part BBC TV series. with Keith Michell, Donald Pleasance. Dir. Waris Hussein. | |||
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HIGH ANXIETY |
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| A Mel Brooks take off of the psychiatric world. Helping Brooks in his crazy and camp antics is Madeline Kahn & Harvey Korman. | |||
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HIGH HOPES |
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| A very British comedy by Mike Leigh about life in London at the back of Kings Cross station. | |||
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HIGH NOON |
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| A classic Western. Retired marshal's wedding is interrupted when he learns a killer is returning to town. Gary Cooper. Dir. Stanley Kramer. | |||
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HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR |
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| The film which brought director Alain Resnais world renown. French dialogue with EST. | |||
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HISTORY OF THE WORLD Part 1 |
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| Riotous Mel Brook's comedy that spoofs world history from Stone Man to French Revolution. Moses, Nero, Louis XVI etc. | |||
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H.M.S. PINAFORE |
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| The Gilbert & Sullivan operetta with Peter Marshall Frankie Howerd, Della Jones and with the London Symphony Orchestra. | |||
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HOBSON's CHOICE |
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| Charles Laughton is the drunken tyrannical Lancashire bootmaker brought to heel by his tough daugher (Brenda De Banzie). | |||
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THE HOFFNUNG FESTIVAL CONCERT |
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| An evening of symphonic caricature commemorating Gerard Hoffnung who died in 1959. Music and humour. | |||
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HOPE and GLORY |
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| John Boorman's semi-autobiographical evocation of the war and the evacuation of children from the cities. Sarah Miles. | |||
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HOTEL DU LAC |
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| A BBC TV classic adaptation of the Anita Brookner prize-winning novel of an elegant hotel, the atmosphere and the characters who live in it | |||
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THE HOUSEHOLDER. |
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| Merchant Ivory film set in India. A shy schoolteacher marries and only gets to know his wife in their first year together. A story told in domestic and affectionate terms. Shashi Kapoor & Leela Naidu. | |||
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HOW TO IRRITATE PEOPLE |
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| John Cleese, Michael Palin, Connie Booth & Tim Brooke-Taylor demonstrate with sketches how to do just this. | |||
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HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE |
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| Monroe, Bacall & Grable as 3 fashion models who pool resources with the hope of ensnaring rich husbands. | |||
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HOWARDS END |
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| Artistic adaption of E.M.Forster's novel by the Merchant-Ivory team. A story of two families drawn together in spite of vastly differing backgrounds and ambitions. Antony Hopkins, Vanessa Redgrave, Emma Thompson. | |||
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HULLABALOO OVER GEORGE AND BONNIES PICTURES |
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| Peggy Ashcroft, Vicor Banerjee & Safed Jaffrey in a Merchant Ivory romp through Royal India. | |||
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THE HUNCH BACK OF NOTRE DAME |
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| Charles Laughton in the famous 1939 version. | |||
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